Dalton Newfield writes in an
article published in the USA re the sordid history (and inevitable
failure) of the Churchill family's promotion of the fantastically
expensiveThe Collected
Worksin 1974.

"I am more than a little
surprised that the Churchill family gave their support to this
money-grubbing project". "It would be wonderful to own such a work".
"It would be wonderful if my - or even any US library - could own the
set, let alone risk using it".

"It would be wonderful if greed
were not always the family's motive".

"WSC was not unconscious of
money - quite the contrary - but he did put out abridgements, cheap
editions, etc., so that people at all levels could enjoy his works".

"What pains most is that the
idea was all so un Churchillian",Mr
Newfield concluded.

Demand for an investigation
into the purchase ofThe
Chartwell Papersby the National Lottery
Commission

Correspondence with The National
Trust.The whereabouts of the gifts presented
to Churchill by Foreign Governments and Heads of States which were
formerly displayed at Chartwell? Also, in the light of recent
Churchill family heirloom selling at auctions, how safe now are all
the contents of Chartwell? (including the extraordinary story of how
Chartwell was bought by Churchill's friends for the nation, but how
the contents are (alarmingly) only on loan to the National
Trust).

'Conservative Party sleaze
added to the continuing collapse of moral standards in the UK. From
1983 onwards it gathered pace and led to the national uproar caused
by the the story of theChurchill familythreatening to sell Sir Winston and Lady Churchill's
gift to Churchill College of The Chartwell
Papers.Lord
Rothschild'sletter.

The
storyof the
Churchill family and their friends promotion (in 1988) of
the West End Musical with 'Winnie' singing in his bath!
After three performances it was taken off. It was reputed to
have lost £3 million pounds and was described by a
Buckingham Palace courtier as "just done for money, money,
money . . . . vulgar vulgar vulgar!"

It is sad to read the many criticisms of the
contents of The Dome after such a vast expenditure of money and
effort. As long ago as February 1998 the Committee of The Churchill
Society feared that this might be the result after Ms Page of The New
Millennium Experience Co Ltd refused to consider having the society's
exhibition stand installed there in honour of Churchill and his
Comrades-in-Arms.

In the event - the Society's comprehensive 231
page web site has attracted from all over the world more visitors
since its opening than are likely to ever visit The Dome.

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PRESS RELEASEJuly 15th 2000.

It is immensely sad to observe what a disaster
The Dome has been.

The effects of this staggering and shaming
failure, heightens the overwhelming sense of loss that many older
people in England share today. It will cast its shadow over the next
generation, and history will conclude that it mirrored accurately our
generation's loss of national identity, purpose; our former morality,
good artistic taste, self confidence and national self respect.

By that infamous deed, the children of the
nation's most illustrious hero, signalled to young people that
'money comes before morality' and that the Lottery
Commission was an easy touch. The Dome was funded from Lottery
Funds.